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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 19 State legislatures have less than 10% women members: Centre

19 State legislatures have less than 10% women members: Centre

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published Published on Dec 11, 2022   modified Modified on Dec 12, 2022

-PTI/ The Hindu

Share of women members in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha stands at 14.94% and 14.05%, respectively; average number of women MLAs in Assemblies across the nation accounts for only 8%

Women representation in Parliament and most State Legislatures across the country is below 15% with 19 of State Assemblies having less than 10% women lawmakers, according to a government data.

The State Legislatures which have more than 10% women lawmakers are Bihar (10.70%), Chhattisgarh (14.44%), Haryana (10%), Jharkhand (12.35%), Punjab (11.11%), Rajasthan (12%), Uttarakhand (11.43%), Uttar Pradesh (11.66%), West Bengal (13.70%) and Delhi (11.43%). According to the data presented in Lok Sabha on December 9, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and Telangana have less than 10% women legislators.

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PTI/ The Hindu, 11 December, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/19-state-legislatures-have-less-than-10-women-members-centre/article66252443.ece


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